Maps
When Michael Maidenberg visited Dzygivka
in 1996, local authorities put together a
map that showed sites of interest. These
included locations of synagogues, and the
presumed location where the house of
Maidenberg's great-grandfather lived. The
map also showed the location of the large
cemetery, still in use but also in
disrepair.

Enlarging and reducing the size of the
Google map helps put the location of the
shtetl into historic context.

There is a fascinating YouTube video which
shows 1,000
years of European border changes.
Hint: let the
video fill the screen in order to see
dates which are above and to the left.
They are hard to read, as are the captions
at lower left that describe major
events taking place.

The view below
shows Dzygivka's relation to the border with
Moldova, which historically was attached to
Rumania. The border is the Dniester River. The
area east
of the Dniester became known as "Transnistria"
during the war, and was an area of many ghettos
and killing sites. Dzygivka itself was turned into
a ghetto.

A
striking historic map with the
imposing title
of "A
new map of the Kingdom of Poland with its dismembered
provinces" was
published in London in 1787. It is part of
the David Rumsey Map Collection and can be
viewed here.
Scroll to
the bottom of the map to see the Dniester
River. The shtetl of Yampol is marked. The
overall region is Podolia, while the area in
which Dzygivka is located is referred to as
the Palatinate
of Bratzlaw. A palatinate was a
territory ruled by a noble, called in Polish
a "voivode".